Callisto makes a bargain with Ares, from Tarturus, to switch bodies with Xena, sending Xena into Tarturus and freeing Callisto. Xena, in Callisto’s form, makes her own bargain with Hades, to make things right but the only problem is…she has one day to fix it.
Jennifer Hill believes the spirit of her dead husband Alec, an Immortal, is still with her. She comes to Alec's old friend MacLeod and begs him to appease Alec's spirit by whacking the son-of-a-bitch who took Alec Hill's head. Richie finds himself strangely attracted to the grieving young widow — until he realizes he's the son-of-a-bitch who took Alec Hill's head.
When Diana’s father takes ill, Xena is summoned and runs into yet another lookalike, a barmaid named Meg, who seems quite taken with Joxer.
MacLeod and Amanda are reunited with Cory Raines, the charming, smooth-talking ""Clyde"" to Amanda's ""Bonnie"" during their five state crime spree in the 1920s. Amanda, always ready for a little larceny, is tempted by the carefree and adventurous lifestyle Cory offers her and takes him up on the offer when she realizes MacLeod won't beg her to stay with him. But MacLeod rides to rides to the rescue when one of Cory's schemes goes astray.
Gabrielle plans to marry Perdicus, her hometown sweetheart, and must leave Xena and their travels, at the same time that Callisto has escaped from prison and is headed straight for them with vengeance in mind.
Carolyn Marsh's latest best-seller is a hot and sexy romance novel featuring a smoky-eyed swashbuckling Highland hero named Duncan MacLeod. Both MacLeod and Terence Coventry, the Immortal depicted as the borish villain of the novel, are out tofind the author — MacLeod to find out how much she really knows about him, and Coventry to kill her.
When Orpheus loses the power to subdue the god Bacchus with his music, Xena and Gabrielle risk their lives to end Bacchus’s reign of terror.
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Dawson's high school sweetheart BETSY walks into his. Meanwhile, MacLeod's got his hands full with Johnny K, a teenaged mobster wannabe when MacLeod knew him during Phrohibition who's now a cold-blooded assassin. The only rules Johnny K knows are the rules of the street, and MacLeod's going to have to play by them if he wants to keep his head.
Carl Robinson, the former slave turned baseball player, has finally found the good life as a Major Leagues star — but when Carl is challenged by another Immortal and witnesses find him standing over the decapitated body, Carl is forced to go on the run from the cops. He turns to MacLeod for help when he is pursued by lawman Matthew McCormick, who has more than just a professional interest in taking Carl into custody.
When Gabrielle defends a young Isrealite named David, her life is threatended until Xena proposes to fight her old friend, the giant Goliath in return for freedom for the Philistines.